Exhibition Program

Installation of glass artwork by Robert Fielding in Glassworks smokestack gallery

Now Showing

GR’AFT

6 Aug to 25 Oct 2026
GR'AFT draws on the ancient practice of grafting, the joining of separate living forms to create new growth, as both process and metaphor. Developed during a 2024 residency at Canberra Glassworks, Lynda Draper's new body of work brings together glass, ceramics, and bronze through collaborations with skilled artisans.

2026 Program

Funny Peculiar, Not Funny ‘Ha Ha’

5 Nov 2026 - 31 Jan 2027
Erin Dickson’s first Australian solo exhibition brings together the full breadth of her diverse practice in a bold new body of work that fuses traditional craft skills with digital technologies.

Previously in 2026 Program

end to end

5 Feb - 26 Apr 2026
Louis Grant uses his sculptural practice to centre on glass as material and metaphor. Working with neon and glass forms, he explores themes of queer identity, perception, and transformation through light and installation.

Through the Window

14 May - 26 Jul 2026
This exhibition brings together the artists of Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre (Mparntwe/Alice Springs, NT) and Jordan Benson (Naarm/Melbourne VIC) in a dialogue of tradition and innovation.

2025 Exhibition Program

Shock Lines

30 Apr - 3 May 2025
An interdisciplinary collaboration between glass artist Caitlin Dubler, percussionist Niki Johnson, and sound artist Natasha Dubler that works across installation, performance and musical composition. In partnership with the 2025 Canberra International Music Festival.

Arum

03 Apr - 08 Jun 2025
Designer Tom Fereday presents a solo show exploring thoughtful design that examines the tension between natural materials and contemporary manufacturing.

Meander

03 Apr - 08 Jun 2025
Glassmaker Katie-Ann Houghton explores the relationship between form and pattern, drawing inspiration from architectural details in her first solo exhibition.

Fulcrum

25 Jun - 10 Aug 2025
Walgalu/Wiradjuri artist Aidan Hartshorn explores the ongoing colonial disruptions to Walgalu connections with the land using industrial glass.

Oily Water

21 Aug - 26 Oct 2025
Artist & designer Will Lynes presents a solo exhibition delves into the tension between precision and imperfection, and asks: what if we embraced failure, not as a flaw to fear, but to challenge and expand conventional perspectives?

Skin Deep

06 Nov - 25 Jan 26
Skin Deep becomes a living threshold, a place where the inner world breathes into the outer where each artwork carries the quiet evidence of its making. 2024 Tom Malone Glass Prize winner, Gabriella Bisetto draws inspiration from the shapes and structures found within the human body that sustain us.

2024 Exhibition Program

Nicholas Burridge, Load-bearing, 2024, toughened glass, augur, steel

Built Geologies

13 Jan - 25 Feb 2024

Nicholas Burridge is inspired by terraforming, a concept which literally translates to “Earth-shaping”.

Artwork by Rosalind Lemoh installed as part of Told.Retold.Untold. 2024 at Canberra Glassworks.

Told. Retold. Untold.

07 Mar - 28 Apr 2024
Born in Sierra Leone and based in Gundaroo, New South Wales, Rosalind Lemoh’s artistic practice deeply examines identity within the Australian context.

Pink Moon

01 Aug - 22 Sep 2024

Cobi Cockburn is a celebrated contemporary artist, who uses glass, light, and line as her medium. Pink Moon marks a departure from her established palette and uses colour as a metaphor for the human experience of being and feeling.

Island Hopping

03 Oct - 15 Dec 2024
Island Hopping embodies Jeffrey Sarmiento’s transnational identity as a Filipino diasporic artist. Blending traditional glassblowing with printmaking and digital fabrication, Sarmiento visualises the complexities of cultural hybridity, showing how identities evolve through the intersection of different influences.

Mythica Ignota

03 Oct - 15 Dec 2024

Through a deep-conceptual and value-driven philosophy, Alice Springs designer Elliat Rich taps into ancient and future ways of seeing the world. Mythica Ignota uses mythology as a framework to nest scientific observation and more-than-human orientated values with artefact and narrative. 

Artist, Robert Fielding, seated on a large rock in Country.

NYARU

09 May - 21 Jul 2024

Robert Fielding is a contemporary artist of Pakistani, Afghan, Western Arrernte and Yankunytjatjara descent, who lives in Mimili Community in the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands.

2023 Exhibition Program

Net Worth

12 Jan - 26 Feb 2023
Net Worth brings together the works of emerging artists Louis Grant, Jessica Murtagh, Shirley Jianzhen Wu and Madisyn Zabel. They explore concepts of identity, societal stereotypes, and technology overlayed with history and craftsmanship engrained in glassmaking.

Two cast glass stones displayed on a sheet of engraved timber.

Baayangalibiyaay

18 May - 21 Jul 2023
An exhibition of new works that explores the story of materiality and memory which looks to the glassmaking process to record, absorb, reflect and transform its body as a means by which to translate great periods of upheaval and environmental crisis across river landscapes.

a circular logic

23 Jul - 08 Oct 2023
a circular logic is an installation activated by time and space. Lisa Sammut creates immersive installations that offer the viewer the chance to experience and encounter something magical. These are spaces for deep reflection where nothing else seems to exist.

Glass gold leaf coins with 'TRY AGAIN' stamped on them

WHAT GAVE YOU THAT IDEA

23 Jul - 08 Oct 2023
New works in glass by Zoe Brand explores human interactions through phrases that can be read or misread, and how quickly things can be interpreted or misinterpreted.

Series of five colourful & geometric glass vessels

MEMPHIS NOW

19 Oct to 16 Dec 2023

This co-curated group show featuring works by Judi Elliot, Drew Spangenberg, April Phillips, Kate Benazi and Gibson Karlo draws on the visually extravagant design movement that was derived by the Memphis Group.

2022 Exhibition Program